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Knowledge for Justice
With the adoption of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement, the purpose of development is being redefined in both social and environmental terms. Despite pushback from conservative forces, change is accelerating in many sectors. To drive this transformation in ways that bring about social, environmental and economic justice at a local, national, regional and global levels, new knowledge and strong cross-regional networks capable of foregrounding different realities, needs and agendas will be essential. In fact, the power of knowledge matters today in ways that humanity has probably never experienced before, placing an emphasis on the roles of researc...
Korkeakosken mylläri
Kirja kertoo Huittisten Korkeakosken kylän ihmisistä ja elämästä sisällissodan ja Suomen sotien aikaan. Mukana on tarinoita ja havaintoja myös nykyhetkestä. Täältä on lähdetty, tänne on tultu ja tänne on jääty. Vuosi 1918 oli koko Suomelle raskas ajanjakso. Se oli suomalaisille ja niin myös huittislaisille raskasta aikaa. Sisällissodassa menetti henkensä yli 30 000 suomalaista, joista suurin osa oli punaisia. Kansalaiset olivat jakautuneet kahden eri leirin kannattajiksi. Oli punaisia ja valkoisia, punakaartilaisia ja valkokaartilaisia. Ystävät ja sukulaiset ajautuivat sisällissodassa eri puolille. Ihmiset, jotka olivat aiemmin työskennelleet yhdessä ja toimineet kylÃ...
A Companion to American Environmental History
A Companion to American Environmental History gatherstogether a comprehensive collection of over 30 essays that examinethe evolving and diverse field of American environmental history. Provides a complete historiography of American environmentalhistory Brings the field up-to-date to reflect the latest trends andencourages new directions for the field Includes the work of path-breaking environmental historians,from the founders of the field, to contributions frominnovative young scholars Takes stock of the discipline through five topically themedparts, with essays ranging from American Indian EnvironmentalRelations to Cities and Suburbs
Living on the Land
This book, which is the PhD thesis of the author presented to the Faculty of Forestry of the University of Joensuu (Finland) in December 2001, analyses changes in the forest cover in the Ohangwena Region, particularly focussing on the domestic use of wood in constructions on farms. 'The results indicate that deforestation was caused almost entirely by clearing of land for permanent agriculture. ... The frequent change of homestead site has been an important factor in creating the characteristic agroforestry landscape' of the area. One of the sources the authors uses are aerial photographs from the 1940s onwards, and satellite images from the 1980s onwards. The discussion in the book deals with household sizes, homestead density and constructions, land cover structures and frequency of vegetation species. (BAB).
Encountering the Past in Nature
Annotation. Six essays by Finnish scholars (which accounts for some of the notes being in Finnish) discuss the "new" science of environmental history, issues and case studies of change over time in forested Northern Hemisphere zones due to natural and human forces, and Western conceptions of wilderness. The editors are with the U. of Helsinki, whose press first published the book in 1999. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR.
Design, User Experience, and Usability. Theory, Methods, Tools and Practice
The two-volume set LNCS 6769 + LNCS 6770 constitutes the proceedings of the First International Conference on Design, User Experience, and Usability, DUXU 2011, held in Orlando, FL, USA in July 2011 in the framework of the 14th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2011, incorporating 12 thematically similar conferences. A total of 4039 contributions was submitted to HCII 2011, of which 1318 papers were accepted for publication. The total of 154 contributions included in the DUXU proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on DUXU theory, methods and tools; DUXU guidelines and standards; novel DUXU: devices and their user interfaces; DUXU in industry; DUXU in the mobile and vehicle context; DXU in Web environment; DUXU and ubiquitous interaction/appearance; DUXU in the development and usage lifecycle; DUXU evaluation; and DUXU beyond usability: culture, branding, and emotions.
Eurasian Environments
Through a series of essays, Eurasian Environments prompts us to rethink our understanding of tsarist and Soviet history by placing the human experience within the larger environmental context of flora, fauna, geology, and climate. This book is a broad look at the environmental history of Eurasia, specifically examining steppe environments, hydraulic engineering, soil and forestry, water pollution, fishing, and the interaction of the environment and disease vectors. Throughout, the authors place the history of Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union in a trans-chronological, comparative context, seamlessly linking the local and the global. The chapters are rooted in the ecological and geological specificities of place and community while unveiling the broad patterns of human-nature relationships across the planet. Eurasian Environments brings together an international group scholars working on issues of tsarist/Soviet environmental history in an effort to showcase the wave of fascinating and field-changing research currently being written.
Takapiru
Mitä taustalla häärivä takapiru voi saada aikaan? Maritta Lintusen mestarillisissa novelleissa ihmiset toimivat yllykkeiden vieminä: Kirjailija saa viestejä tuntemattomalta ja alkaa työstää romaaniaan tämän antamien vihjesanojen mukaan. Opettajan luokalle tulee välkky poika, jonka ärsyttämänä opettaja paljastaa omat heikkoutensa. Menneisyyttä ei kukaan pääse pakoon: tyttöystävä vuosien takaa tupsahtaa vastaan kiusallisessa tilanteessa, tai yhtäkkiä joutuu muistamaan jonkun, jolla ei kuvitellut olevan merkitystä. Lintunen kuvaa oivaltavasti eri-ikäisiä ihmisiä, joiden moraalikäsityksiä elämänkokemus ja oma sukupolvi muokkaavat. Kun entinen poikakodin kasvatti n...
Korkeakosken väkeä
Kyläyhteisö on ihmisyhteisö, joka muodostuu suppeahkolla alueella yleensä maaseudulla sijaitsevien talojen asukkaista. Perinteisesti se on koostunut ihmisistä, jotka asuvat fyysisesti lähellä toisiaan. Kylä eli ennen kuin symbioosissa omaa elämäänsä. Korkeakosken kylällä on asunut monenlaisia ihmisiä. Maailma on muuttunut ja muuttuu edelleen. Omavaraistaloudesta on siirrytty vaihdantatalouteen. Kaikkea ei enää tarvitsekaan tehdä itse. On syntynyt uusia ammatteja ja ammattikuntia. Kaikki rehellisesti tehty työ ja kaikki laillinen liiketoiminta on arvokasta. Jokainen ihminen on yhtä tärkeä, ainutlaatuinen yksilö huolimatta seksuaalisesta suuntautumisestaan, ihonväristä...
